An explosive device has been found outside the home of a brother of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane, Sinn Féin said.

The posters use a picture of Peadar Heffron along with a warning that anyone thinking of joining the police could suffer similar injuries.

Conservative Andrew Bridgen asked ministers to meet with him to discuss allegations he made connected to Leicester.

Irish officials were told that an increase in haulage traffic across the border would provide opportunities for republican paramilitaries through the lapse of official customs controls.

The IRA were determined to gain control of an increase in haulage business between the Republic and Northern Ireland, in a bid to extort protection money, declassified state papers show.

There are big issues that demand attention at this election. But one topic rules the roost, says Michael Clifford

Michelle O’Neill has survived a challenge to her position as the vice president of Sinn Féin, after she was re-elected following a ballot of party members.

Northern Ireland is being dragged out of the European Union into a “little Englander nightmare,” Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill has said.

The impending threat of Brexit, the domestic beef crisis and the growing awareness of climate change have put the importance of supporting local food producers back on the menu in Co Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne

From a French corvette in 1798, a very important visitor alighted to Co Donegal’s Rutland Island.

Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier’s Northern Ireland operations have been sold to US firm Spirit AeroSystems.

A new peace foundation launched in memory of Martin McGuinness is to establish a permanent memorial to the late political leader.

The DUP has said peace in Northern Ireland is at risk if a Brexit deal draws a customs border in the Irish Sea.

An 18-year-old man died and four other young people were injured in a car crash in Co Down.

Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson met this morning to discuss a new programme motion for his Brexit deal, Labour has confirmed.

Accounting firms have not shown a “learning curve” from the collapse of travel company Thomas Cook and builder Carillion, with urgent reform the only way to improve audit quality, a senior MP has said.

A British-Irish parliamentary body has warned that the strong relationship between Gardaí and the PSNI “could be undermined” if there was no Brexit agreement.

Direct rule would need to be introduced in Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the British Government has confirmed.

It was billed as “Super Saturday” as the UK Commons held a weekend sitting for the first time in 37 years, but things did not go the way British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had planned.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson said his party continues to hold firm and will vote against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

Robert Hume tells of the eccentric MP for Athboy, Co. Meath – born 300 years ago this month – who thought he was a teapot, and was afraid his spout might break off.

Abortion reforms in Northern Ireland risk being slowly unpicked by UK ministers, the House of Commons has heard.

Fianna Fáil has criticised Sinn Féin for refusing to take its Westminster seats for crucial Brexit votes.

There are many reasons why even the oldest democracies, such as the US and Britain, are increasingly riven by tribal hatreds. But when political leaders deliberately exploit these rifts and whip up hostile emotions even further, they do immense harm to the institutions that guarantee people’s freedom and safety, writes Ian Buruma

A DUP MP has blamed Sinn Féin for the failure to reach agreement to restore Stormont as Northern Ireland approaches 1,000 days without devolution.

In his speech at the Labour Party’s conference in Brighton,John McDonnell said Britons were working some of the longest hours in Europe and promised that would change.

Boris Johnson’s Government has been told to publish communications connected to prorogation and no-deal Brexit planning after MPs supported an emergency Commons motion.

The British Prime Minister should explain to the victims of historical institutional abuse why new laws granting them compensation will not be debated during this parliamentary session, an MP has said.

It is anticipated that a North-only backstop will be one of solutions discussed between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson today in fresh attempts to break the Brexit deadlock.

Homes in the Church View area of Strabane were evacuated for a time as it was examined.

Two groups of pro and anti-Brexit protesters have clashed on Parliament Square in London.

Latest: Boris Johnson has responded to his brother Jo's announcement this morning that he is quitting politics.

British prime minister Boris Johnson's brother is set to resign as a Conservative party MP over the deepening Brexit crisis.

So, it is finally happening.

The British PM is right to think that suspending parliament has made a Brexit deal more likely. But the backlash could have serious consequences, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

As Cillian Murphy and co return for season five of Peaky Blinders, Georgia Humphreys takes a sneak peek at what’s in store for a series that moves the action up to 1929.

An explosive device has detonated in Co Fermanagh as police and British Army bomb disposal officers were searching the area.

Meanwhile, Brendan Howlin said that the information in the leaked documents had been objective.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is under pressure to ensure his Brexit meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes place in Dublin and not London amid rising tensions over the talks.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned British prime minister Boris Johnson that London will still face "years" of talks with the EU even if it forces a no-deal Brexit.

Mr Donaldson said that unless the EU and Ireland compromise on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, they are heading for a no-deal Brexit.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The DUP is not prepared to take no-deal off the table, Jeffrey Donaldson MP has said.

What is still to come remains hidden. It may be suspected, but it isn’t known. Nothing could have prepared us for the apparent disintegration of Great Britain.